https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgIZ23BNFk4

2021-03-21

lying in the grass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d2pk38VdqU

volcano

I dedicate this album to our daughter Enna Asher Sanjuan.
Who just came into this world on December 30th 2020 at 3:21 AM.. During the beautiful full moon…
She will carry this amazing energy with her forever and she will also work with it her whole life bringing in the age of Aquarius.
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A selection of lullabies for you my dear child...
Also some of my favorite tracks
credits

Flora y Fauna

Flora

Whitelabrecs presents the debut album by pianist and composer Catherine Tang. She was born in Basel, Switzerland to a Serbian mother and Chinese father, and her music reflects this richly varied cultural background. Beginning with classical piano at the age of four, Catherine later discovered Jazz in her teens, a path that led to studies at the Jazzcampus in Basel where she completed both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. Catherine has since established herself as an active presence within the Swiss Jazz scene, performing at major festivals including Montreux Jazz Festival, Gurtenfestival and Offbeat Jazz Festival. Beyond her role as a pianist and composer, she is also bandleader of the quintet ASRA, whose debut album Nocturnal Journey was released by Berlin’s XJAZZ! Music.

Catherine’s work is characterised by an emotional sensitivity to atmosphere and texture, inspired by her surroundings and daily life. Speaking about her process, she explains: “I draw inspiration from the people and everyday moments around me. Simple melodies often come to me through my voice - it’s my way of capturing fleeting ideas and emotions. My approach to composing is very emotional; I need to live and experience things deeply before I can translate them into music. For me, music is a way to process life, to turn raw emotions and experiences into something tangible and meaningful.”

‘Where Do Your Dreams Fly?’ marks Catherine’s first solo release under her own name. Recorded at CopShop studio in Berlin over three days with producer Michael Haves, the sessions centred around an old upright piano which imbued its warm and intimate character throughout the record. Rather than polishing away imperfections, Catherine embraced the mechanical noises of the piano and even the creak of the chair, giving the listener a sense of being present in the room. Additional layers came from expressive synthesizers including the Osmose, Moog Grandmother and Prophet Rev2, carefully woven into the arrangements to expand the depth of the recordings without losing their human touch.

The title was inspired by a line encountered in Shirley Horn’s ‘I Watch You Sleep’ which became the album’s guiding theme. For Catherine, Where Do Your Dreams Fly? is about letting go of self-doubt and external expectations, allowing the music to follow its own path. That openness also found its way into the recording process; the album’s closing piece ‘Nocturnal Returnal’ was captured spontaneously in a final take at the end of the session. It may have been completely unplanned but it became one of Catherine’s favourite pieces for its raw honesty.

Dreamy, textural and immersive, this debut showcases the full extent of Catherine’s deeply personal artistry. It invites the listener into an intimate space that balances fragility with expansiveness, whilst quietly posing a central, open-ended question: where might your own dreams take you, if you were given the freedom to fly? 

Credits
Written and produced by Catherine Tang
Recorded, produced and mixed by Michael Haves at The Cop Shop, Berlin
Mastered by Martin Ruch, at the Control Room in Berlin
Photography by Jérémie Luke Dubois
Artwork by nkl
Art and design by Andrew Heath

Realised with the support of GGG Kulturkick and Sulger-Stiftung.

Where Do Your Dreams Fly?

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wlr195 Catherine Tang - Where Do Your Dreams Fly?

Happy New Year to everyone - for the first time in years I went overseas without working on a project  YAY - just a holiday so i kept the internet at arms length for a change and enjoyed the food, romance  and sites of Paris... and then i got married !  Carolyn and I were waiting forever for our plane home and there just happened to be a bright red public piano in one of the waiting lounges... so i embarrassed myself in front of the Parisians... i look forward to catching up on all of yr music as I am now home. All the best for the up coming year : )

Charles de Gaulle Airport -Live Piano Improv

Marco Lucchi : Mellotron and synth

19 aprile 2020

To whom the horns weep

Full digital album for free / pay what you want and cassette tapes available on bandcamp: 
https://lyndsiealguire.bandcamp.com/album/sins-against-truth

To Know You, Death

beneath your heart of darkness

Repose

Dedication

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vax xistuns - trike rmx

a great honor for me  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRfaP4ROcQs

no professional aspirations, just entertainment
home recordings just for the joy of music
Everything is based on feelings and moods. No use of AI.
thank you for listening
Thank you all for your comments, because there is always room for improvement
I am still looking, trying and experimenting, I really like electronic ambient for many years, but it only works as a live percussionist. In short, nothing is black or white:)
In today's hectic world I need quiet sounds and the vast majority of songs created at night, so are my compositions such as they are.

My tracks is based on the absolute freedom of the use of sound. Arises as if I painted a picture. In the head is the base, and then adding the details here and there.
As well as if I were his music told the story.

I use: Ableton-Live-Suite with Partnerinstrumets, Kontakt Player + virtual instrumentzs,NI-Machine, Ableton Push, Acces Virus TI Snow, Waldorf Blofeld, AKAI MPK 49, Korg Microkorg XL+,KORG Kaossilator,Kaosspad,KORG Wavedrum, Roland HPD 20, nord lead A1 r, Yamaha mx49, Roland Edirol for Fieldrecordings - and various live percussion.(Kalimba, frame drum, tombak, koshi etc)

lying in the grass

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